Building China into a Modern Powerful Socialist Country

Two additional paragraphs written by Mao Zedong in reviewing relevant materials. One of them was an additional paragraph written in September 1963 when reviewing "On Industrial Development (Preliminary Draft)", and the other was an additional paragraph written in December 1964 when reviewing the draft report of Zhou Enlai on the work of the government at the First Session of the Third National People's Congress. It was included in the Collected Works of Mao Zedong, Volume 8.

Mao Zedong summed up the historical reasons for the failure of the Chinese people in resisting foreign aggression before the Anti-Japanese War. "One is the corruption of social system, the other is the backwardness of economy and technology."

With regard to the social system, the problem has been basically solved. Although the economic and technological reasons have changed, it is inevitable to be beaten if we do not strive to completely change the situation in which our economy and technology lag far behind the imperialist countries in the coming decades.

Mao Zedong also stressed that: "We cannot just take the beaten track traversed by other countries in the development of technology and trail behind them at snail’s pace. We must break away from convention and adopt as many as advanced technologies as possible to build our country into a modern socialist power within a not too long historical period".

Building a strong and modern socialist country is the grand goal put forward by the Communist Party of China. It encourages all the Chinese people to make unremitting efforts to strive for it.